Oakland County Historical Commission

Oakland County Historical Commission OCHC interacts with the County's many local historical organizations in order to promote interest in Meetings are usually held the first Tuesday of each month.

The Oakland County Historical Commission interacts with the County's many local historical societies, historic preservation organizations and County departments in order to promote interest in Oakland County's rich heritage. Specifically, we:

Locate, and make available in the County Library, research documents such as historic maps and local community history books;


Sponsor educational worksho

ps and forums;


Celebrate Oakland County's history through events like the ceremony installing the original Courthouse bell in our new Courthouse.

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The Oakland County Historical Commission (OCHC) is made up of nine Oakland County resident members who are volunteers. They are appointed by the Oakland County Board of Commissioners Chairperson with Board Concurrence to three-year terms (according to County Ordinance 20, amended by Ordinance 25).

07/14/2026

For anyone who uses the "Oakland County Through Time" website to view aerial photographs of Oakland County from 1940 to now, you may have noticed the site was unreachable and asking for a login.

Thanks to the Oakland County ArcGIS team, we now have a new link to the site:

https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/e3c0d25b505a42278bcc1850433312bc.

If you have the site bookmarked, please update it with the new address.

Join us tonight at the Waterford Oaks Activity Center for a planning meeting about the Oakland County Historical Society...
03/12/2026

Join us tonight at the Waterford Oaks Activity Center for a planning meeting about the Oakland County Historical Society's annual summer social and America250 event, July 25-26.

This is a great opportunity to help shape this event and help your local historical organizations, along with our county, celebrate our nation's semi sesquicentennial! The meeting starts at 6:30!
Oakland History Center

Can't join in person? Join us remotely, here:
https://oakland-edu.zoom.us/j/92077921668?pwd=Vq5p66S5oLf4GhxuuBazTsI9pPNauR.1

03/04/2026
01/08/2026

It's not Jewish, but it is Michigan history! Our CEO, Catherine Cangany, PhD, is wearing her other hat in this FREE lecture on "Indigenous Oakland County," to help mark America's 250th birthday this year.

Address

1200 N Telegraph Road
Pontiac, MI
48341

Opening Hours

Monday 8:30am - 5pm
Tuesday 8:30am - 5pm
Wednesday 8:30am - 5pm
Thursday 8:30am - 5pm
Friday 8:30am - 5pm

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